Obscure

DarkStone Restoration

97% positive of 72 Steam reviews

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Paul Cuisset.

About the game

Darkstone Restoration brings the classic action RPG back to modern PCs with improved stability, compatibility, controls, readability, and quality-of-life improvements — while preserving the spirit of the original game.

Tagged by players

CRPG
Automation
Programming
Dungeon Crawler
Hack and Slash
Action RPG
Loot
1990's
Procedural Generation
Perma Death
RPG
Character Customization

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DarkStone Restoration

97% positive of 72 Steam reviews

View on Steam

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Paul Cuisset.

About the game

Tagged by players

CRPG
Automation
Programming
Dungeon Crawler
Hack and Slash
Action RPG
Loot
1990's
Procedural Generation
Perma Death
RPG
Character Customization

What players say

Recommended
A restoration of a childhood favorite. The UI is better, there's a quest log now, you auto-loot coin, and there's now auto-save. The graphics are also better and it's automatically wide-screen. And it's easier to track where you have and have not been as undiscovered places are darkened by default. Best of all it works out-of-the-box! The voice acting is only in French (the UI and subtitles are available in other…
6.8 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Very good remaster an old gem. Not without issues, but dev try to fix it. Control in WASD + cursor is most comfortable. On Master and Hero difficulties - real challenge. Highly recommend this remaster!
69 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
It's a mixed review that I hope to change to positive once the project improves. Positive: - DarkStone Restoration contains all the mechanics, audio, and gameplay faithfully recreated from the original - Works flawlessly at higher resolutions - Quality of life improvements are great (auto-sort inventory, pinned map during dungeon exploration, etc.) Negative: - Character illustrations and videos have been poorly…
20 min played when written. 29 found it helpful.
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